UPC 9781890449063 Jon Jerde in Japan: Designing the Spaces Between

ISBN 9781890449063 - Jon Jerde in Japan: Designing the Spaces Between

ISBN 9781890449063 Jon Jerde in Japan: Designing the Spaces Between

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"Jon Jerde in Japan" tells the story of the unlikely collaboration of a daring Japanese real estate developer and a freewheeling American architect in the making of the largest private real estate development in Japan: Canal City Hakata, the most important work to date by one of America's most controversial architects, Jon Jerde. When Japanese developer Fukuoka Jisho bought a nine-acre site in the distressed center of Fukuoka, they were determined to build a project that would revive the city's heart; to that end, they called on the Jerde Partnership. Bound by this common vision, Fukuoka Jisho and the Jerde Partnership negotiated language and cultural differences, one of Japan's 9781890449063